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🌟 Editor's Note
Good morning — it’s Friday, December 26. Today we’re diving into the first-ever inter-club football match, Franksgiving, Kwanzaa's first day, The Exorcist, and much more — fast-paced, engaging, and totally on point!
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🚀 Time Machine
-1492
First Spanish settlement in the New World, La Navidad, established by Christopher Columbus in modern Môle-Saint-Nicolas after the Santa María was wrecked.
-1825
The Decembrist revolt against Tsar Nicholas I began in Russia.
-1860
The first-ever inter-club football match takes place at Sandygate Road in Sheffield, England, between Sheffield and Hallam F.C.
-1941
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill making the fourth Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day.
-1966
Kwanzaa's first day is celebrated in Los Angeles, led by Maulana Karenga, chair of Black Studies at California State University.
-1966
Jimi Hendrix wrote "Purple Haze" backstage at the Upper Cut Club in London.
-1973
Based on William Peter Blatty's novel, "The Exorcist" premiered and became the first horror film to be nominated for Best Picture.
-2004
Coastal regions of the Indian Ocean are devastated by a tsunami triggered by a 9.3-magnitude earthquake, killing 230,000 people.
📸 Snapshot
The only picture of President Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe together, by White House photographer Cecil Stoughton, 1962
🗨️ Final Words
“Refresh me with a great thought.”
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